THE NEW YORKER had occaSIon to exchange views with Ed Warner, a co-captain of the C.C.N.Y. basketball team, who was a high-scoring waiter at Kline's Hillside, another Catskill hotel. The C.C.N.Y. team was the talk of the basketball world at the time. After completing the preceding season in a generally success- ful but by no means spectacular man- ner, it had gone on to WIn both of the two major post-season intercollegi- ate tournaments-the NaÓona] Invi- tation and the NatIonal Collegiate Athletic Association-a feat that no team had ever before accomplished. One reason for C.C.N.Y.'s less than perfect record dunng the regular sea- son was that two of its players-Ed Roman, who was now the other co- captain, and Al Roth-had on severa] occasions shaved points in behalf of an- other gambler, who was not connected with Sollazzo's enterprises. (Roman was something of a phenomenon among pliant basketball players 1n that there was no question about his bona fides as a college student; he was president of the Student Council and a scholar of Phi Beta Kappa calibre. ) Warner was unaware of what Roth and Roman had been up to during the '49-'50 season until Gard, a high-school friend of Roth's, told him, in an effort to get \Varner to go along the next winter \Varner said he didn't thìnk he was in- terested, and Gard, who thought he detected a certain lack of conviction in the reply, let the matter drop for the time being. It was an active summer for Gard. He also found time to pre- sent Sollazzo to a famil) friend who was a basketball referee; Sollazzo, running faster and faster on the treadmill, wanted to persuade the referee to in- fl uence the results of professional bas- ketball games; the idea was to call so many fouls against the star players of the favored team that they would be ruled off the court. It was a project of extremely dubious practicality-refer- ees have enough trouble with fans as it is, without inciting them to physical reprisals-and it proved to be a totally profitless one for Sollazzo. The fall of 1950 was not a happy tIme for Sollazzo He had found out that Internal Revenue agents were ex- amining his income-tax returns, and he expected to be called upon at any time for explanations that he would be unable to make. He was losing a good deal of money on the currently unfixable game of baseball and on horse racing, which was at least beyond his power to fix His income from selling gold continued to be large, but there were indications that ',/: ':^' ' , ,y...' ,7 i < / /' , · t / 1 i- t1 , ", ,, ", y .t i/{ ',<" " :: "4 ' " "of" '^" ( ;;"::'. : o't .".. . - ,f " ; '7" ," 'Ì- (Advertisement) \ \ ''' 1 ,h >'> , t". '/0<Y'"" " ;- , "'} o:.. . "'_'..,. ? :. 'f 1 / /...., <J oo " " <1".., ,., . "Æ" '" 3f " '1!'.1' ,.., I"\ ^ t.... <. ',^ : ,.. 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This is to be specially noted in California's premium white table wines - wines whose differences in flavor, body and bouquet reflect the unique soils and climates in which they grow... set them apart as truly great They offer, we believe, new and exciting pleasures to challenge any you have yet known. As a starter, we suggest f ' you try among these wines.. ( l ' , 0 , ' ..r ( " ' · -*i < ' .... 7" r ' " \J " .( ",:' '",' Yo' ........-.. , , I ( ,.....'^f if,:; '/ '."\ u t: ;:' T :/" 1,:-, r'): " ":.í1/ . . ...". ';:.t'." ". .. ;. & f " )) '> 'N "'>" '. '><. RIESLINGS- Among California's finest are those of the White (or <' '='" lohannisberger) Riesling grape which produces a wine of flowery bou- quet, sprightly flavor and pleasing aftertaste. Another is the Franken Riesling (or Sylvaner) whose wine is a shade more subdued in tart- ness. Still another to try is from the Grey Riesling - a slightly softer, more mellow wine. These grapes also produce some of California's finest RHINE WINES. --'" SAUTT;'Y{NES -Semillon is one of California's great Sauterne grapes. It produ(:es some delightfully dry, smooth and delicate wines - and others that are semi-sweet and rich in traditional flavor and aromatic i ^' ' beauty. Sc. vignon Elane is another. Its wines are full-bodied, golden \ and with rich, spicy fragrance. WHITE PINOTS - Plnot Blanc, Pinot Chardonnay and Pinot de la Loire are the principal producers of California's white Pinots. They b..... ; j are smooth and round, rich in bouquet and finesse. 49 > ð' '19:' Wine Advisory Board, 717 Market St., San Francisco 3, California v